I am running Puppy 4, CUPS 1.3.3 and trying to print wirelessly to a Canon MX860. Setup sees the printer to select and the driver to select. When I try to print a test page, I get the error message with a Permission Denied. I can go to that directory and see the file. It is the test print page. Under permissions says "rw-, r--,---/--- root......whatever that means. How can I correct?

I just did a fresh install of Puppy 4.3.1 and upgraded the CUPS to 1.3.11 as per the instructions. I then did a simulated install of your Canon MX860 and it worked fine.

There have been other episodes where CUPS 1.3.x showed strange behaviours with USB installs. Maybe that's what you are seeing. Or maybe there are some left-over bits of the CUPS 1.3.3 install that are causing the problem.

If your hardware will run it, I would get Quirky 1.2. It has CUPS 1.3.11 built in, so the printer setup may be easier to do.

everything seems good until I load cups_pdf-0.8 and then I'm back to the original error. I tried pfdprinter_pdq_ad-02 but it does not seem to work. Is there a pdf writer that I can add that will work with the cups printing components???? thanks!!

Well, I have learned a little more. At first, 4.3.1 will work and print correctly. Over time...maybe very soon, it looses that ability and the fault shows up. It was not related to the pdf load. Maybe something happens when it is saved or ???. Quirky was similar. It set up OK and printed but then cups would not open to let me try again...local host could not be found. In Quirky, seamonkey will also just disappear. It does not lock up but is just instantly gone. I had some other version of puppy that did that too.

After trying Quirky, I went one step further to Lucid. It comes with CUPS 1.4.2. After several days, printing is still working fine and has not developed the fault. The only odd thing I notice is that the two green lights on the Netgear wireless adapter keep blinking like it is in some kind of fault mode. However, it is working fine.

Lucid solved my printing issue so I simply stuck with Lucid. However, several of the web browsers had scrolling issues running in Lucid. I ended up with Chromium and it works well.

Using the tool in Lucid, it also seemed easier to to load Openoffice. However, I tried using the ATAN function in the spreadsheet yesterday and it did not work. It offered the function but the result was just the initial number. I'm wondering if there is an additional step to get all of the trig functions. I guess that is something to look into.

Here is something that we have learned about Puppy and CUPS. Certain alien packages, like debs or sfs files made from debs, have invalid permissions and ownerships. When installed, they alter the Puppy filesystem and cause CUPS to fail.

This might explain why CUPS would initially work for mcman56, then eventually quit. It might also explain why your use of the "-s" option would repair the problem.

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